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    Putting the Silent Woman Back into the Shakespearean Shrew

    The ‘silent woman’ of the Shakespearean Taming of the Shrew is Bianca. Her silence is not absolute, of course, but relative, compared to the noisy resistance of her shrewish sister Katherina; and, of course, her ...

    Margaret Maurer, Barry Gaines in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)